New York City Dancer Dies After Eating Mislabeled Cookies From Grocery Store
Published on January 25, 2024
A New York City dancer has died after eating mislabeled cookies containing peanuts, according to the family’s lawyers, who revealed the product was sold at a popular regional supermarket chain. In a statement on Jan. 24, the legal representatives of Órla Baxendale, 25, said their client went into anaphylactic shock and died on Jan. 11 resulting from a severe allergic reaction after she ate Vanilla Florentine Cookies. “Órla’s passing stemmed from an unfortunate incident involving the consumption of a cookie manufactured by Cookies United and sold by Stew Leonard’s,” the New York-based law firm of Gair, Gair, Conason, Rubinowitz, Bloom, Hershenhorn, Steigman & Mackauf wrote in the statement....